After sucking down 5 pints of yummy stout at the Blues and Jazz Festival the other week I am very interested in starting a little microbrewing at home. I just need to find a place that has a walk thru from start to finish including materials. All the places I keep finding give a little info here and there, but mainly want me to buy their starter ( Read more... )

The visit with the in-laws was great. We had such a full week that it felt like it just flew by. I told my M.I.L. that next time we should plan to do nothing and sit around the house staring at each other so it would feel like they had been here a while ( Read more... )

I started my vacation on Monday. I have been cleaning for days upon days even before that getting ready for my in-laws visit. I have reached the end of all energy and motivation. My wife has been working most everyday so I am home cleaning. When she is off in the evenings she is spent because she currently has a cold. So as it is only the ( Read more... )

I went out with my wife last night to Chilli's, Books-A-Million, and then to the Blue Ridge Brewing Co. for some beers. They win awards every year for the beer they brew in house.

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A patient checked in tonight and told us she had "Platter Fancy-itis" Sounds like a Martha Stweart disease. She meant to say "Plantar Fasciitis ( Read more... )

I have not been one to be very into music since I was 20 years old. I had a pretty large CD collection before that, but a girl from my church stole a large portion of it. Then a house fire after I was married destroyed all but a handful. As it is nowadays I find myself driving around with the radio off just for “me time” My wife bought me a CD ( Read more... )

We had a patient in the wee morning hours yesterday. He was a drunk and he stunk. I had to x-ray his entire spine and do a head CT on him. He was really a freak. He told me his cervix hurt. I thought maybe he was confusing his cervical spine with that and didn’t think much of it until a few moments later when he said it again and was grabbing ( Read more... )

Today was my 5th day at the gym. I have gained 1 pound everyday I have gone except one ( Read more... )

...and I am the daddy I think.

This is somewhat exciting in a nerdy kind of way. fuji6100 submitted a comment to my previous journal entry about my ER story of the "Potato Lady" being linked to a Urban Legend. So I wrote the following as a reply to his comment:

It’s interesting that this is an urban legend. I wonder if it is less than 10 years old, ( Read more... )